Thierry Lippert

MFA Luxembourg

Head of Evaluations and OECD DAC Delegate

Bio

Thierry Lippert was born on 20 November 1971 in Luxembourg. He is married, and has three children. He speaks Luxembourgish, French, German, Spanish, and English He received a Master in Business in 1995 at the “Ecole Supérieure de Commerce” in Reims, France, as well as a “Diplom-Fachwirt ESB” from the European Business School in Reutlingen, Germany. From 1997 to 2001, Thierry Lippert worked as a Private Sector Development expert within the Delegation of the European Commission to Bulgaria, where he created the “Privatisation of the Privatisation” process, through which the Bulgarian State divested some 50 state-owned enterprises through Investment Banking intermediaries. From November 2001 to September 2008, in his functions within the Luxembourg Development Cooperation, he was instrumental in creating the Luxembourg Round Table on Microfinance and the European Microfinance Platform and devised a new internal quality insurance system. He also held the post of Governor at the CGAP of the World Bank and he was an active member of the UN Advisors Group to Assist the Poorest created by the Secretary General. From 2008 til 2012, Thierry Lippert was in charge of the Luxembourg Embassy in Cape Verde, and occupied the same functions in the Embassy in Managua covering Nicaragua and El Salvador from 2012 to 2016. From 2016 til 2020 he was in charge of Russia, the Eastern Neighbourhood of the EU and Central Asia within the Political Directorate of the MFA. Since then he rejoined the Development Cooperation Directorate as Head of Evaluations and Representative to the DAC of the OECD.